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  1. 8 hours ago, raindancewx said:

    Here are the El Ninos with less than 50 sunspots annualized from July-June in Boston, Oct-May basis back to 1892 for Boston:

    1897-05-31 43.2 0
    1901-05-31 17.5 0
    1903-05-31 42.0 0
    1914-05-31 39.0 1
    1915-05-31 22.3 0
    1924-05-31 29.8 1
    1931-05-31 40.8 0
    1954-05-31 23.6 0
    1964-05-31 63.0 0
    1966-05-31 44.1 0
    1977-05-31 58.5 0
    1987-05-31 42.5 0
    1995-05-31 14.9 0
    2007-05-31 17.1 0
    2010-05-31 35.7 0

    15 low-solar Ninos in 120 years, centered on 1948. Trend in snow is up since then, so you'd add maybe 15" to the mean of 35". Out of the 128 years on record for Boston, you have one top 20-year for snowfall in a low-solar El Nino. 1900, 1994, 2006 are bottom 20. Only two of the years are meaningfully above average. I'll take my chances with below normal.

    Yo dude let's cut to the chase how many inches of snow is Boston New York Philly and DC supposed to get this winter thank you  no one really gives a **** about the temperature it's all about the snow

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  2. 3 hours ago, raindancewx said:

    My main issue with 1957 as an analog is you had near record solar activity that year, near 300 on an annualized basis from July 1957 to June 1958. So if solar means anything, some kind of different outcome would be expected. Obviously it is running much warmer than the blend in the NE as of right now too.

    I've looked at solar effects by elevation and ENSO in the West, and it seems like the primary effect is on temperature in winter/summer, and on precipitation in fall/spring. March in the SW is kind of flaky for snow, but high solar does seem to be almost a pre-requisite for Albuquerque to get heavy snow in March.

    I just looked at Philadelphia snow in El Nino by solar conditions - no correlation. So maybe watch early December? I have a hunch that a blend of 1986/1994/2006 will show up as the Dec pattern though.

    So those 3 years 86 94  2006 are those your analog years for the winter 2018/19

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